all change

Feeling veeeery pleased tonight. For some time I've been considering selling off my sofa-bed as when extended it really was too large for the spare room. It is the most wonderfully comfy sofa to sit on, but this wasn't enough to convince me to keep it. The plan was to find a single divan bed with drawers to replace it with. So, I checked out trademe last weekend, and bid on a terrific bed and won it. Next task was to get quit of the sofabed, and in a fortunate turn of msn conversation with a friend that was rapidly accomplished. He's having visitors from England, and his current sofa was allegedly horrible.

So today was the big day - I hired the covered trailer, and an expedition was planned to Pukekohe to retrieve the bed. On waking I was only mildly concerned to see that it was absolutely HOSING down. It turned out to be one of those days when the weather changed frequently, and there was a fair amount of heat in the sun when it was out. We achieved acquiring the bed fine, and then the performance of getting the sofa-bed OUT began. Short version: It was tricky but we did it. The new secondhand bed is now installed and made up - fits perfectly in the available space, and further adventures were had installing the sofabed in it's new home. The door there was narrower, bizarrely.

Thanks to Lynda (tow-bar-car & muscle) and Graham (muscle and new owner) for all the effort and time :) Muchas appreciated.